FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies announced on Friday that a 2022 Mother’s Day drive-by shooting victim died and detectives still need help to find the shooter.
Dru’Niyyia Griffin — a Piper High School graduate whom the shooter paralyzed while she was in a car near Fort Lauderdale — died on Sunday after nearly two years in long-term care. She was 20.
According to Miranda Grossman, a spokeswoman for BSO, detectives “are calling on the community to step forward with information, so her mother doesn’t suffer another Mother’s Day without answers.”
Deputies found Griffin wounded in the driver’s seat of a black Honda Accord, on May 8, 2022, in the 2800 block of Northwest 15 Court.
“Detectives believe the shooter’s vehicle may have been a dark SUV,” Grossman wrote in a statement.
Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue personnel took her to Broward Health Medical Center. Surveillance video shows when Griffin’s car was riddled with bullets.
“She got shot in her neck. She got shot — a bullet to her spinal cord. She got a bullet in her stomach,” Lucille Griffin, her grandmother, said a few days after the shooting.
Griffin’s mother, Elease Griffin, couldn’t make sense of the tragedy.
“My baby was shot for no reason.”
Grossman asked anyone with information about the case to call Detective Lacey Henry at 954-321-4328 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.